Software Architect

MIP Release 4.1.4

The latest release of the Market Intelligence Portal was released into production today.  Version 4.1.4 contains a number of new reports and features.  Two of the most important changes include a major revision of the MIP Alerts and the newly released Influence Vector (IV).

MIP Alerts has been available since release 3.0.  In 4.0, we've simplified the functionality and made the alerts more informative.  For this version, we are testing the new alert system as part of a beta process.  We expect it to promote it from beta in the next two weeks.

The Influence Vector takes a lot more explanation and I expect that we will write more on that in coming blog posts. 

MIP Release 4.1.3

Release 4.1.3 of the Market Intelligence Portal was published to our production environment over the weekend.  It was largely a maintenance release, improving performance in several areas and adding to our internal data management and reporting functions, but it did contain some new functionality for our clients.

MIP Release 4.1.2

Release 4.1.2 was deployed into production over the weekend.  This release was largely a maintenance release that resolved some minor issues with some administrative functions.  It also contained several custom reports and query models for a number of different customers.

MIP Release 4.1.1

Release 4.1.1 was deployed into production over the weekend.  The biggest addition to the Market Intelligence Portal is the inclusion of our new Query Builder functionality.  Think of it as a light version of the Report Builder, which has been available in the portal for about a year now. 

Given that this is the first iteration of this functionality, Query Builder only covers the basics: create a query, save a query, view results and export those results to Excel.  However, even with that straightforwad and simple feature set, the Query Builder opens up the portal to entirely new categories of users.  Query Builder has enough flexibility for power users, but is easy enough for even the casual or executive user to pick up on.  Look for more features in Query Builder in our future releases.

MIP Release 4.1.0

Release 4.1.0 of MIP has been deployed.  It's always nice to have a trouble-free deployment on a Sunday.